Japan to build a wall of ice in effort to stop flow of radioactive water to the sea at Fukushima

In an unprecedented effort, the Japanese government plans to spend close to half-a-billion dollars building a 90-foot wall of ice in the ground around the Fukushima reactors in an effort to stop flow of radioactive water into the ocean. There’s no guarantee that this will work, and even if it does it is at best only a temporary solution to a catastrophe that continues to unfold. For details, including images, go tohttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23940214

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